On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:01 PM, John C Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > I have seen where you also need to give your username account full right to a > drive even if your account is in the group
Tried that. No difference. And my account, being a member of local administrators, should have full access, since local Administrators group already has full access. But I can add my account explicitly, but it doesn't change the error, unfortunately. > Also look at Group Policy security trumps local security Don't think so, because the 3 other guys in my office with laptops (all of whom are affected by the same GPOs) are not having this problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:57 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Virtual Disk Manager:Access is denied > > Here's a weird one - Running Win 7 Pro x64. My domain account is in the local > Admins group. I am having difficulty encrypting my D: drive with PGP Whole > Disk Encryption; it tells me there's no valid volume. > Since I don't have anything on that volume I care about, I figure I will just > delete the whole partition, and start over again. > > Except that I can't. I can't format it (I get an unknown error, and nothing > in the Event logs, except Event 1, VDS Basic Provider, which - according to > MS - can be safely ignored. Dunno why I get that; I'm not using the Hyper-V > that the KB talks about ...). > I can't delete the partition; I get "Virtual Disk Manager:Access is Denied". > > If I boot with a UBCD4WIN CD, I can delete the partitiion, and re-create it > fine. But booting back into Win 7 gives me the same error, so it can't be > related to the actual disk partitioning; must be something in Windows. But I > can't find out what. > > I have no errors access drive D: - I can write to it, read from it, run > programs from it, etc. All works as it should. I just can't figure out why I > get the Access Denied message. I look at the security of the drive, and it > seems right to me ("local PC\Administrators" has FULL access). > > Any clues as to where to go next? There's no errors in the Event Log, and no > errors accessing the drive ... except when I want to go delete the partition > or format the drive ... > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
